Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Furnished with, made of, or covered with slats: as, a slatted frame.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to a slat; having slats.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of slat.

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Examples

  • This has found its modern format in "slatted armour" which can be seen on American Strykers (pictured above left) and British Warriors but, inevitably, cannot be applied to lightly armoured vehicles.

    We've been there before Richard 2006

  • White linen-cambric frills, hemstitched by hand, and carefully crimped, were at our throats and wrists, and sunbonnets upon our heads, or rather, "slatted" hoods that could be folded at pleasure.

    When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood Marion Harland 1876

  • Elsewhere there were odd boxes, on of which contained human remains, laid out in a kind of slatted coffin.

    pages turned 2009

  • Once the correct 'slatted' lighting effect has been achieved, the scene is shot with a very serious Hayden Christensen responding to Anakin's dialogue, and we move onto Shaak Ti's scene featuring my friend Orli Shoshan

    starwars.com Blogs 2009

  • The interior arrangements of the cubicles usually consist of beds of the double tier wooden slatted type, palliasses and two or three blankets supplied by the Retaining Power.

    Red Cross Report 2010

  • Then the gag swung to the side with an abrupt swiftness, the great sail boomed like a cannon, and the three rows of reef-points slatted against the canvas like a volley of rifles.

    Chapter 6 2010

  • Hundreds of padlocks in various shapes, etched with dates and couples' initials, have been affixed to the railings of the wooden slatted bridge.

    Ronda Carman: Padlocks Declaring Your Love On The Pont Des Arts In Paris Ronda Carman 2011

  • And when he knelt he found her squatting, in the far corner underneath, and in the slatted dark, saw only her eyes, wide and white.

    Gabbie Zombie Caleb Stright 2011

  • Hundreds of padlocks in various shapes, etched with dates and couples' initials, have been affixed to the railings of the wooden slatted bridge.

    Ronda Carman: Padlocks Declaring Your Love On The Pont Des Arts In Paris Ronda Carman 2011

  • In fact, the last work shop I attended was clearly slatted for lit writers.

    We Are the Orcs at SF Novelists 2009

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